Bringing Men Back In

Homans, George Caspar

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“…The newly liberated "men" could build history and society, rather than live at their mercy. In this vision, "man makes himself" (Homans 1964). Models differed on who the main actors in this new history might be.…”

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World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor

2010

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Much modern social theory depicts society as made up of autonomous and purposive individual and organized actors. In reaction, the new institutional theories build arguments about the wider social conditions supporting stable systems of such agentic actors. Phenomenological versions, which are especially relevant to analyses of modern integrating but stateless world society, treat actor identities as themselves constructed in the wider and now global cultural context. These ideas call attention to the modern collective construction of expansive models of actors, the rapid diffusion and adoption of elaborated models of actor agency and rights, the consequently decoupled character of actor identities and activities in the modern system, and the extraordinary mobilizing potential built into the elaborated models of individual and organizational actors in world society and into the inconsistencies between these models and activity.

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2010

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“…The analogy drawn by Parsons was with living organisms whose internal organs function as parts of a system and permit the organisms to survive. Any A related argument is that functionalist sociology has neglected human agency and replaced it with structured, normalised behaviour (Wrong 1961;Homans 1964). Functional methods, the critics argue, concentrate on disembodied social systems and institutions, at the expense of human beings.…”

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Functional explanation in economics: a qualified defence

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2002

Journal of Economic Methodology

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Economists seldom make explicit use of functional explanation, although they sometimes use it implicitly. Functional theorising has lost favour among social scientists in recent years, and few are now willing to adopt functional language. This paper argues that, despite some drawbacks, explicit functional methods have several attractive features, including a pluralistic attitude to causality, an awareness of stratification and emergence, and a compatibility with a realist perspective. Functional methods on their own cannot provide full causal explanations, but they can raise important theoretical issues often neglected in mainstream economics.

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“…Para este marco conceptual lo relevante es la estructura social que se genera a partir del intercambio de relaciones sociales y que permite la permuta de información, entre otros recursos. Así, Homans (16) subraya la importancia del comportamiento que emana de los contactos entre los individuos y la repercusión que estos contactos puede tener dentro de cualquier estructura social. Los investigadores aseguran que la conducta social, como cualquier otra conducta operante, puede ser fácilmente predecible si son analizadas sus consecuencias, de las cuales pueden ser extraídas las causas o los estímulos de dichos comportamientos.…”

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Las relaciones informales: un valor añadido en la gestión de personas

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RESUMENLas organizaciones sanitarias son consideradas por los expertos como una de las más complejas a nivel de gestión y política de personas. El hecho responde a la intensidad de las emociones vividas en el día a día tanto con el paciente como con los colegas.Las experiencias vividas donde se combinan alegrías, tristezas y momentos estresantes generan en muchas organizaciones sanitarias un clima laboral inadecuado que repercute negativamente en el rendimiento de las organizaciones de salud. Este artículo pretende justificar teóricamente, la importancia de las relaciones sociales o informales que se establecen entre los trabajadores y cómo éstos pueden tejer un entramado por el que fluyan conocimiento, creatividad y valores que provoquen una cultura organizativa capaz de aumentar el rendimiento de la empresa sanitaria. ABSTRACTHealth organizations are considered by experts how one of the most complexity about management and resources of human. The reason is a lot of strenght emotions lived every day so much with patients so with peers.Lived experiences, where they are linked (combined), joy(felicity), sorrow and stress situations, can be the cause of wrong (bad) climate and so to impact (shaping) on the future performance of the health organizations. The objective of this paper is to argue the value of social relationship o informal relationship among workers and how those can knith (draw) a structure by the which, flow knowledge, creativity and values. Secondary to this, the organisationally culture is able to improve the performance of health enterprise.

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Bringing Men Back In

Cited by 328 publications

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World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor

World Society, Institutional Theories, and the Actor

Functional explanation in economics: a qualified defence

Las relaciones informales: un valor añadido en la gestión de personas

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